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Comments for "ESA Canada Schmoozes Lawmakers with Games, Anti-Piracy Pitch"enRe: ESA Canada Schmoozes Lawmakers with Games, Anti-Piracy Pitchhttp://gamepolitics.com/2009/04/24/esa-canada-schmoozes-lawmakers-games-anti-piracy-pitch#comment-212804
<p>DRM has been unpopular whenever it becomes intrusive.</p><p>I am in a financial position to buy any game I want. However at times I must ask myself now, is it better to buy the game and have some intrusive DRM disable my virtual drives or Blue Ray. HD-DVD, DVD drives and take full access to my computer disabling all my drives or pirating a copy in which has been cleaned of the intrusive DRM not to mention most CD Checks and DRM has been disabled which makes my game run 110% faster.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Before Bit Torrent sites, all there was, was Warez sites in which honestly if you download a game, you&rsquo;ll most likely download a virus. The risk of downloading a virus on a Bit Torrent Site is rare and if it happens it&rsquo;s because the RIAA, MPAA are uploading viruses or disturbing a torrent.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Also you were not very honest in your answer or you&rsquo;re new to the gaming scene. DRM became extremely unpopular and higher criticized by StarForce. We all tend to forget about one of the most corrupt organizations out there. Installing a PC game bundled with Star Force only meant your computer was infected with one of the most complex virus ever seen. Well, I am kind of exaggerating but the affects of Star Force are still out there for those unlucky enough to buy a PC game in the bargain bin at an old store.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Developers are so pompous in which they can&rsquo;t seem to understand why PC gaming is failing. Bad ports, and intrusive methods of DRM are the reason.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Back in the days of Yore before CD Checks, they used to make you read the entire instruction book and then take a quiz before each and every time you play which is no joke. Even for Street Fighter on the PC you needed to take a long quiz before you can play. And when that stopped PC Gaming boomed.</p><p>ECA and game developers are you listening?!</p>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:03:21 +0000Neo_DrKefkacomment 212804 at http://gamepolitics.comRe: ESA Canada Schmoozes Lawmakers with Games, Anti-Piracy Pitchhttp://gamepolitics.com/2009/04/24/esa-canada-schmoozes-lawmakers-games-anti-piracy-pitch#comment-212792
<p>&nbsp;*sigh*&nbsp;is all this Ottawan can say</p>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 03:44:20 +0000Pinwormcomment 212792 at http://gamepolitics.comRe: ESA Canada Schmoozes Lawmakers with Games, Anti-Piracy ...http://gamepolitics.com/2009/04/24/esa-canada-schmoozes-lawmakers-games-anti-piracy-pitch#comment-212782
<p>You forget they consider B. a clear case of piracy, and if you read the legal garbage that comes with your console, you are more or less leasing the console. So they feel it is with in their rights not to allow A.</p><p>~Weatherlight~</p>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:36:05 +0000Weatherlightcomment 212782 at http://gamepolitics.comRe: ESA Canada Schmoozes Lawmakers with Games, Anti-Piracy ...http://gamepolitics.com/2009/04/24/esa-canada-schmoozes-lawmakers-games-anti-piracy-pitch#comment-212763
<p>&nbsp;Nooo, and I was so happy about living in Canada, the last bastion of sanity in a world gone mad with copyright.</p><p>If it's anything at all like the DMCA that would be terrible. I do know that there are some MPs that are heavily against anything like the DMCA but I don't know if they'll be able to make their voices heard amidst the lobbying pressure.</p>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:46:41 +0000Wormdundeecomment 212763 at http://gamepolitics.comRe: ESA Canada Schmoozes Lawmakers with Games, Anti-Piracy ...http://gamepolitics.com/2009/04/24/esa-canada-schmoozes-lawmakers-games-anti-piracy-pitch#comment-212753
<p>Fair use?&nbsp;Backups of media you own?</p><p>The ESA knows not these things.</p>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:43:01 +0000Craig R.comment 212753 at http://gamepolitics.comRe: ESA Canada Schmoozes Lawmakers with Games, Anti-Piracy Pitchhttp://gamepolitics.com/2009/04/24/esa-canada-schmoozes-lawmakers-games-anti-piracy-pitch#comment-212747
ESA, get your DMCA out of my country. We don't like your kind 'round these parts.Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:42:53 +0000Zeke129comment 212747 at http://gamepolitics.comRe: ESA Canada Schmoozes Lawmakers with Games, Anti-Piracy ...http://gamepolitics.com/2009/04/24/esa-canada-schmoozes-lawmakers-games-anti-piracy-pitch#comment-212746
<p>Sadly, the Tories wouldn't catch either of those references, as they don't care enough to properly fund our Olympic athletes.</p><p>---<br /> <b><a href="http://mammon.bz">The Mammon Philosophy</a></b></p>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:25:49 +0000SimonBobcomment 212746 at http://gamepolitics.comRe: ESA Canada Schmoozes Lawmakers with Games, Anti-Piracy Pitchhttp://gamepolitics.com/2009/04/24/esa-canada-schmoozes-lawmakers-games-anti-piracy-pitch#comment-212734
<p>@Neo_DrKefka: The Gears of War incident wasn't DRM though. It had to do with the anti-cheat system misfiring thanks to a digital certificate on the game's executable expiring when the developers forgot to replace the one used in Beta Testing with something suitable for an actual release (i.e. NO expiry). In fact, I don't think this article even has to do with DRM at all but it sure is a good motivator to pirate. Even when it's not implemented in an insane sort of way, DRM in general still has really gotten a bad reputation after Spore and thus becomes an instant turn off for many people.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>@lumi: I agree with your analogy 100%. Just because &quot;the majority&quot; in the group do something, it does not make it the better choice. To be honest, Canada seems to be one of the few countries that still has relatively mild copyright laws. USA has it a LOT worse and in UK it's just insane (i.e. never mind games, you can't even sing Happy Birthday in public without a license).</p>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:35:26 +0000djnforce9comment 212734 at http://gamepolitics.comRe: ESA Canada Schmoozes Lawmakers with Games, Anti-Piracy Pitchhttp://gamepolitics.com/2009/04/24/esa-canada-schmoozes-lawmakers-games-anti-piracy-pitch#comment-212721
<p>The only reason why Piracy is rampant is because of Digitial Rights Media in which has hurt the sales of all major gaming companies and because of other instrusive methods in the game.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>ESA&nbsp;give me a break, go after the game developers you all want to stop selling used games gain another profit well throwing out crappy buggy games and then whining. Remember when the Gears of War Developer whined because people said the PC port was crappy but of course he was silent when the DRM&nbsp;made all games fail because it was programmed to fail after a certain date.</p>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:49:39 +0000Neo_DrKefkacomment 212721 at http://gamepolitics.comRe: ESA Canada Schmoozes Lawmakers with Games, Anti-Piracy Pitchhttp://gamepolitics.com/2009/04/24/esa-canada-schmoozes-lawmakers-games-anti-piracy-pitch#comment-212716
<p>Bioware, home province REPRESENT!</p><p>Anyways, I don't think Bioware would be very supportive of this measure as they very well know that DRM does more harm than good to their industry. Or maybe i'm wrong since basically every game they have released past KOTOR 1 has included some kind of form of DRM.</p>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:33:41 +0000insanejedicomment 212716 at http://gamepolitics.com